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Chinese provinces and cities are starting off strong with obtaining overseas orders in the Year of the Dragon by sending teams abroad while actively participating in international exhibitions.
Saturday marks China s traditional Lantern Festival, the 15th day of the first lunar month of the Year of the Dragon. On the day that concludes the two-week-celebration of the Chinese New Year, the nation s consumption performance is set to prolong the buying fever seen in the Spring Festival holidays.
In the past several working days since the end of the Chinese Lunar New Year holidays, construction work has started on many foreign-funded projects, while others are expanding, and yet other firms are planning to expand in the Chinese market, according to media reports on Thursday, underscoring growing interest and confidence among multinationals in China.
At the Zhengzhou Putian Railway Station, Central China s Henan Province, containers full with goods ranging from industrial spare parts to daily commodities, are waiting to be loaded to trains. Many of them will be shipped to European countries thousands of kilometers away.